Concerts

by Henry Cow

Concerts cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1976
  • Label: Compendium
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Community rating: 4.4/5 from 5 ratings

Artists on this release: Chris Cutler, Fred Frith, Tim Hodgkinson, Lindsay Cooper, John Greaves

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A challenging double album split between heavily composed avant-rock suites and entirely spontaneous group improvisations, featuring contributions from Robert Wyatt. The performances brilliantly illustrate the pioneering Rock In Opposition band's fiercely anti-commercial stance, blending rigid compositional logic with atonal free-jazz chaos.

Genres

Descriptors: avant-garde, complex, improvisation, technical, dissonant, political

Tracklist

  1. Beautiful As The Moon: Terrible As An Army With Banners
  2. Nirvana For Mice
  3. Ottawa Song
  4. Gloria Gloom
  5. Beautiful As The Moon Reprise
  6. Bad Alchemy
  7. Little Red Riding Hood Hits The Road
  8. Ruins
  9. Oslo
  10. Groningen
  11. Udine
  12. Groningen Again

Credits

  • Henry Cow - primary artist, written-by
  • John Greaves - bass, voice, celesta, piano, written-by
  • Maggie Thomas - cover, illustration
  • Chris Cutler - drums, written-by, piano
  • Fred Frith - guitar, piano, written-by, violin, xylophone
  • Tim Hodgkinson - organ, clarinet, alto saxophone, written-by
  • Eddy Gorecki - plated by
  • Dagmar Krause - voice, piano

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